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Climate Protection Creates Sustainability And Jobs In The Real Economy - In Construction, In The Production Of Heavy Machinery And In Systems Engineering.

When You Think Back Today To A Time More Than 70 Years Ago When Germany Was A Terrible Place, A Place People Were Afraid Of, It Is A Wonderful Development That We Have Gone From Being A Terrible Place To A Place That People Dream Of.

Less And Less Is The Question Being Asked As To Whether Developments Are Taking Place In A Democratic And Free Way. Europe Is In A Phase In Which This Output Is No Longer Sufficiently Visible Or Tangible. Youth Unemployment Is Still Far Too High, We Still Haven't Solved Our Currency Problem And Living Conditions In Europe Are Drifting Apart. That Is One Reason Why Critics Say That Our Europe Is Based On Yesteryear's Model.

Madame Merkel Knows Very Well That Her Conservative Christian Democratic Union Or Cdu, And The Csu, The Bavarian Sister Party To The Cdu, With Which It Shares Power Nationally, Must Change Their European Policies. The Fdp's Nationalist-liberal Position On Europe Is Presumably One Of The Reasons The Attempt Failed To Form A Jamaica Coalition Government Which Would Have Seen The Cdu, Fdp And Green Party Govern Together.

It Is Clear That Germany Needs A Foreign Policy In Which We Jointly Define European Interests. Thus Far, We Have Often Defined European Values, But We Have Been Much Too Weak In Defining Mutual Interests. To Preempt Any Possible Misunderstandings: We Cannot Give Short Shrift To Our Values Of Freedom, Democracy And Human Rights.